Warwickshire-Birmingham-1889 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21214

Map Date:

10.1889

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 145.b.10(3)

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Birmingham

Map type:

Insurance

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SP067868

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 0888

Map title:

'Insurance plan of Birmingham.'

Comments on map:

Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:1:4800, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. Vol 1 is October 1889, surveyed August to October 1889 (some sheets dated November), [revised to October 1895: not present], Vol II was surveyed October 1895, and provides extended cover, without index plan.

Scale:

1:480

Map-maker:

Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 12+12].

Number of parts:

24

Colouring:

Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

utilities

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.

Public buildings:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

shown

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 145.b.10 (3).

Industry:

shown

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

shown

Service and professional:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

On sheet 3: section through North Western Arcade [shopping]; on sheet 15: section through and vault plan of Market Hall.

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

shown

Retail activity:

shown generally

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560